That enterprise faltered because of manufacturing problems, and by 2011 they had lost the business and the visas.
His enterprise faltered, leaving it to others, like the Argentine José de San Martín and the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar, to lead wars of independence lasting from 1810 to 1825, in which Spain lost her hemispheric empire apart from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines.
And, this takes me to the fourth reason why Americans are so concerned about government corruption: They see Washingto, D.C. as a cesspool of special interest lobbyists who have made elected officials so beholden to them that Congress is in permanent gridlock, the federal budget is a disaster, the economy is faltering, and a host of enterprises, who engage armies of lobbyists, are prospering.
In later life his business enterprises faltered, leading to debts, prosecution for fraud, and a term of imprisonment.
The list did nothing to assuage the questions about Mr. Cameron's judgment in maintaining close ties with executives of a media enterprise that has been under a faltering police investigation for years and has come under intense scrutiny.
He wants, he says, to instil in Romanians a "different mentality in which fundamental values would be honesty and the capacity to work .Yet this admirable enterprise could falter.
The dual strategy, disclosed by Tribeca executives this week, puts this Manhattan-based festival and its corporate parent, Tribeca Enterprises, in the thick of a fight to revive the faltering independent film world with new distribution schemes.
And think what it would say to world markets and our faltering credit rating if America's wealthy made such a powerful show of trust in the American enterprise?
